Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous